Peanut Butter!

No dialog, today, for hopefully obvious reasons...

Somewhere around some fell off the spoon and onto the floor…

… so I had to scrape it back up again.

Dog Blog Post #1707

This is, quite possibly, the boys favorite food.

Adams Old Fashioned Chunky Peanut Butter, in case you are interested.

And while I was getting the lighting and camera location nailed down, it sat on the spoon in front of Henry - getting softer and smellier by the minute.

By the time the shoot was over, there was peanut butter on his muzzle, his ruff, his paws, the floor, and me!

Zachary got his for "free", as I was happy enough with Henry's shots and didn't feel like cleaning up again.

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Feb 28 2015 - "Smell"

Daily Dog Challenge 1215. "The Nose Knows"

All Gone

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A Bridge… Too Far

Zachary: "Guys - make this work and I'll split the Cookies with you."

Zachary: "I can practically taste them."

Zachary, what are you up to?

Zachary: (gulp)

Zachary: "Routine bridge inspection."

Oh… Ok.

Bridge inspection?

Zachary!

Dog Blog Post #1706

Zachary, in a Yellow hat with Yellow Minions, contemplates A Bridge in Miniature which appears to be just a bit too short to reach the Cookie Jar.

Poor Zachary - looks like it's back to the drawing board!


Daily Dog Challenge 1214. "Miniature"

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Feb 27 2015 - "Yellow"

115 Pictures in 2015 - #46. "A Bridge"

A Dog Of Few Words

Classic Movie Reference...

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Fractured Fairy Tale

"But Grandmother! What big teeth you have," said Little Red Riding Hood her voice quivering slightly.

"The better to eat you with, my dear," roared the wolf!

Zachary: "Rooaaaaarrrrr!"

Yeah… that would have made a GREAT picture to go with that part of the tale.

But I couldn't use it.

Because the OTHER group chose the topic…

MUSIC

(sigh)

So we have…

Henry: "Arrroooooooooooo"

Dog Blog Post #1705

Henry howling with delight for having… um… eaten Little Red Riding Hood?

Wait.

That doesn't sound right.

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Feb 26 2015 - "Music"

Daily Dog Challenge 1213. "Tell A Fairy Tale Day"

The Darker Side Henry?

Henry: "MWHAHAHAHA"

Henry: "But I like little girls and Grandmas."

On Strike

And then I told Zachary how the story REALLY ended, and that was the end of that.

Zachary: "Humph"

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Room for Two

Look right…

(click)

And left…

(click)

Now straight ahead...

(click)

Dog Blog Post #1704

A scarf with Room for two, if a bit Cozy.

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Feb 25 2015 - "Room"

Daily Dog Challenge 1212. "Cozy"

Henry: "This hat looks ridiculous."
Zachary: "We need to find her a new hobby."

Editor's Note: Yes, I know. I need to find something else to knit other than scarves and hats.


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Itsy Bitsy Spider

"The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout...

Henry: "Itsy Bitsy?"

… Down came the rain
and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun
and dried up all the rain
and the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again."

Dog Blog Post #1703

Um… Ewww?

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Feb 24 2015 - "Nursery Rhymes"

Daily Dog Challenge 1211. "Childhood Memories"

115 Pictures in 2015 - #47. "A Childhood Memory"

Who doesn't remember doing the hand motions that go along with this classic rhyme!

Zachary: (gulp)

Zachary: "Oh Mother, dear? Would you mind coming over here..."

Zachary: "… before it climbs much higher?"

Editor's Note: I could tell you that's a fishing rod canister standing before a sheet of plywood covered in "stone" wallpaper - but that would probably spoil things, wouldn't it.

On the bright side (pardon the pun) my second softboxed-flash did a splendid job of eliminating the otherwise annoying strong shadow that would have appeared on the left side of the image.


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My Sock

Henry, that's my sock!

Henry: (blink)

Dog Blog Post #1702

What is it with Golden Retrievers and Socks

???

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Feb 23 2015 - "Socks"

Daily Dog Challenge f1210. "Feet"

How NOT To Get A Shot of a Dog Holding A Sock

Geez - he carries socks around the house ALL DAY.

You'd think he could sit there nicely for just two seconds and hold one for me.

Where's Zachary?

That floor was pretty cold in my bare feet. Foot. And since Zachary doesn't like to hold stuff in his mouth anyway, I decided to do my footsie a favor and let Zachary Catch Cookies instead.

Henry: "Hey Momma! Don't you want your sock?"

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Must Have Had A Good Time

Zachary: "Zzzzzzzz"

Henry: (windows are open but nobody's home)

Shhhh...

Dog Blog Post #1701

Found the boys collapsed on the Leather sofa.

Not quite sure what they did this weekend, but judging from their Neckwear they must have had a good time!

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Feb 22 2015 - "Leather"

Daily Dog Challenge 1209. "Neckwear"

Monday Mischief

Running late, so the above is all I had time for.

A reprise of yesterday's Mischief will have to stand in...




… which is itself a bit of Mischief, I suppose.


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Ready for Action?

Option A

Captain Zachary - Ready for orders

Captain Zachary: "Three… Two…One…"

Option B

Seaman Henry: (blink)

Seaman Henry

Dog Blog Post #1700

Why does the boys have their paws on that red button?

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Feb 17 2015 - "Things Used to Communicate"

A headset.

I wonder who's on the other end?

I wonder if we should be worried?

Daily Dog Challenge 1208. "Anticipation"







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Twilight

Who wants to be a Vampire?

Zachary: "Vampire?"

"Cheesy Burgers"

No no no.

If Google images are to be believed, Twilight Vampires don't smile.

Zachary: (gasp)

In fact, they don't seem to show any emotion at all.

(crickets)

I give up.

(No, really, I did - well, accept for my favorite shot (more like the best of the worst) at the very bottom of this post. This shoot was frankly doomed from the start.)


If you, like me, have neither seen the Movie nor read the book, you're probably pretty confused...

Actually, even if you had seen the Movie or read the book, you would STILL be pretty confused as those images look basically NOTHING like the image I was trying to recreate.

(Try Googling "Twilight" and look at the images to see what I mean.)

Dog Blog Post #1699

I took a literary instead of literal approach.

Presenting Twilight the Book/Movie.

(This is where I probably should admit I have never seen/read either.)

But I found this nice image on Google and thought - how hard could that be to reproduce?

Ridiculously hard, apparently, and none of my shots came even close.

In fact, this was SO bad that I'm not even going to put it on my Try Again list.

Nope, this idea's going straight to the round file.

For the curious, I played with the lighting by shooting the second softboxed-flash at the reflector on the left to try to "wash" out the image, then finished the job by desaturating in Aperture for my favorite shot (below).

It was effective, although I really do dislike the effect and can't image I'll ever use again except for novelty shots liked his one.

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Feb 20 2015 - "Twilight"

Daily Dog Challenge 1207. "Puppy Love"

It's a teen movie, right? So I figure that qualifies as Puppy Love.

Vampire Puppy Love.

Yes, my years are showing. :)

The "Winning" Picture

Golden Twilight

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Exit Stage Left

Zachary: "A true professional does the job no matter how ugly the costume…"

Zachary: "Right, Mom?"

Right!

Now get your Clown Wig on.

Zachary: (silence)

Dog Blog Post #1698

The boys took one look at the costume they were suppose to Change into then beat a hasty Exit.

Photography Assignment

Daily Dog Challenge 1206. "Change"

Our Daily Challenge - Feb 19 2015 - "Exit"

Second Verse same as the First

Henry: (sigh)

Henry: (blink)

Anyone want a Rainbow Clown Wig cheap?

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